Election Year Topics

Less than 10 states pay more in federal taxes than they receive from the government while all the others are net receivers. Shouldn't this be a topic to be discussed in an election year?

It is popular to moan about a growing divide in incomes. But the flipside is that the top 20% pays the taxes that sustains the bottom 20/30/40/50%? of the population. This is an unsustainable balance that is a worrysome source for social stability. What prevents us to discuss this openly?

The balance of trade and services is negative already for over 20 years at a tune of $10B/month. Why are the presidential candidates not addressing this?

Over population is directly or indirectly responsible for all the ills in the 20th century and continues to wreak havoc in the world as well as in the US. Why can't this topic be addressed by our candidates?

The productivity of labor in the US may be the highest in the world, but at the expense of energy efficiency where it is the worst. This makes the US economy very vulnerable at least but at the same time the US is a great contributor to the detoriation of the world's environment, inspite of all the local actions being taken. An excellent topic for discussion, right?

Instead we talk now for more than 25 years about abortion.

Democracy has as best feature that leaders are always removed. Problematic however is that American's brand of democracy - while a step forward over kingdoms and dictatorships - still has a fixation on the selection of a leader. This results in endless micky mousy press reporting on personal trivia. Pointing this out in the US causes always plenty of confusion because after 200 years everyone has been thoroughly brainwashed that the current version is truly the best. I beg to differ.

Voting for parties that spend all their efforts on defining ideologies and explaining how these applies to the short term and long term issues would elevate the level of discourse in the nation.